David Arnold (born 1 October 1946) is a British historian and has held the position of Professor of Asian and Global History at
Warwick University
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since 2006. Previously he held the position of professor of
South Asian History at the
University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies
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. He was one of the founding members of the
subaltern studies group in the 1970s, a scholarly collective that was remembered by
Ranajit Guha in 1993 as "an assortment of marginalised academics". Arnold contributed seven articles in total to the publication and co-edited the eighth volume with
David Hardiman
David Hardiman is a historian of modern India and a founding member of the subaltern studies group. Born in Rawalpindi in Pakistan, Hardiman was brought up in England where he graduated from the London School of Economics in 1970 and received his ...
in 1994. He later described this period as consisting of "the most inspiring and supportive atmosphere I have ever been in".
He is also an early contributor to the field of colonial medicine, most influentially ''Colonizing the Body''.
See also
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Science and technology studies in India
References
1946 births
Historians of South Asia
20th-century Indian historians
Living people
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